Action Alert! Demand that Congress debate and vote on military action against ISIS

Wake up, America! It’s happening again. After 13 years of failed Neocon wet dreams of a Pax Americana empire at the point of an American gun and military occupation, the Neocon war mongers are beating their war drums for yet another war.

There is always, of course, our Neocon Senator John McCain and his puppet boy Little Lindsey Graham, and the military-industrial complex corporate media who are always ready to hand them a microphone from which to trumpet their next war.

“A rough count of ISIS’ fighting strength suggests it has a bit more than 7,000 combat troops, and it can occasionally grab reinforcements from other extremist militias.” The Iraqi army is much stronger than ISIS, but it’s also kind of a mess. “Thirty-thousand Iraqi troops ran from 800 ISIS fighters. Those are 40:1 odds! Yet Iraqi troops ran because they simply didn’t want to fight and die for this [Iraq] government.” So Americans should?

Here’s an idea: get Toyota to stop selling its pickup trucks in the region — it would be a helluva lot cheaper. And who exactly are the car dealers in the region who sell these trucks to terrorists? Fucking car dealers are the same the world over!

As for the American armoured vehicles that we inadvertently supplied to ISIS (oops!) when the Iraqi Army we equipped and trained turned tail and ran leaving everything behind, those vehicles are quickly becoming useless to ISIS. These are high maintenance vehicles that require air filters and treads to be replaced frequently. ISIS does not have resupply and maintenance, they are running these vehicles into the ground. This is not the Wehrmacht Nazi Army with multiple divisions of Panzer tanks and mechanized infantry.

And by the way Sen. Gregg, ISIS also does not have the Luftwaffe Air Force or the Kriegsmarine Navy of Nazi Germany. Your Nazi comparison just identifies you as a complete fucking idiot.

ISIS is a criminal terrorist organization that engages in rape, pillage and plunder, kidnapping and ransoming hostages. They are similar to the Somali pirates who seize oil tankers and cargo ships, only ISIS engages in “piracy” on land.

For the criminal element attracted to ISIS, this is an adventure for soldiers of fortune in a lawless region of the world in which chaos was unleashed as a result of the unnecessary and illegal U.S. war with Iraq. Nature abhors a vacuum, and ISIS is opportunistic in seeking to fill the vacuum left by the failed Nouri al-Maliki government of Iraq.

President Obama will use a speech to the nation on Wednesday to make his case for launching a United States-led offensive against Sunni militants gaining ground in the Middle East, seeking to rally support for a broad military mission while reassuring the public he is not plunging American forces into another Iraq war.

“I’m preparing the country to make sure that we deal with a threat from” the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, Mr. Obama said in an interview broadcast Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

“What I want people to understand,” he said, “is that over the course of months, we are going to be able to not just blunt the momentum” of the militants. “We are going to systematically degrade their capabilities; we’re going to shrink the territory that they control; and, ultimately, we’re going to defeat them,” he added.

The planned speech suggests that the president may be moving closer to a decision on whether to expand the month-old air campaign against ISIS in Iraq into Syria, and it is Mr. Obama’s latest attempt to answer critics who charge that he lacks a viable plan or the fortitude to go after the group.

The president was adamant that he had no intention of sending American combat troops to go after ISIS, repeating no fewer than three times during the interview that he would not do so, and calling the idea of putting United States boots on the ground “a profound mistake.”

“This is not going to be an announcement about U.S. ground troops,” Mr. Obama said. “This is not the equivalent of the Iraq war.”

Any military action to be taken inside Syria, a sovereign nation, requires an Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) from Congress — something Congress would not do exactly one year ago when President Obama asked for such an authorization to pursue Syria’s chemical weapons stockpile (now destroyed after diplomatic negotiations).

Any military action inside Syria should be part of a broad international coalition, one that includes the neighboring Arab League states. This must also be taken before the United Nations. The 69th Session of the UN General Assembly will convene at UN Headquarters on Tuesday, September 16, 2014.

Congress cannot on the one hand sue the president and threaten his impeachment for taking executive actions on “ObamaCare,” and on the other hand completely abdicate its constitutionally prescribed duties to decide questions of war under Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution. Several bills are currently being floated for an AUMF.

Contact your Senators and Congressional members and demand that they state their position for a debate and a vote on any further military action in Iraq (and Syria) against ISIS. They must do their constitutional duty!

3 responses to “Action Alert! Demand that Congress debate and vote on military action against ISIS”

Media + war college/chenyites/The Fox Five+CNN Wolfie demand boots on the ground, NOW. Yes polish up your children for the kissingerites .
When asked where will military come from. They Reply a military draft–NOW.!!!
When frenzied other mediaites asked how will your children/grandchildren
play a role. They reply- they exempt.
Sen McCain? an embarrassment to the Vietnam veterans. He should saddleup General Linsay and ride w/Queen Feinstein into battle with their
families first–show us how its done—-charge-Charge with those puffed out
rooster chests…………………..

I am hoping that Obama sticks to his guns and keeps us from going back into that hornets nest to settle another little dog fight that sprung up in the vacuum of leadership that exists there. On this subject, Obama has my support 100%. I still oppose him on most issues, but on this he is correct.

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